''TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly'' is a quarterly

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academic journal covering

transgender studies Transgender studies, also called trans studies or trans* studies, is an interdisciplinary field of academic research dedicated to the study of gender identity, gender expression, and gender embodiment, as well as to the study of various issues o ...

, with an emphasis on

cultural studies Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices rel ...

and the

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. Established in 2014 and published by

Duke University Press Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 ...

, it is the first non-medical journal about transgender studies. The founding

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are

Susan Stryker Susan O'Neal Stryker (born 1961) is an American professor, historian, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality. She is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies, former director of the Institute for LGBT St ...

(

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it ...

) and Paisley Currah (

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls nearly 14,000 students on a campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall ...

and

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), and were joined by Francisco J. Galarte (

) in 2019.

Publication history

In the introduction to the first issue, Currah and Stryker state that they intend the journal to be a gathering place for different ideas within the field of transgender studies, and that they embrace multiple definitions of ''

transgender A transgender (often shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were sex assignment, assigned at birth. The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...

''. In an interview about the journal, Stryker stated that she felt she had been working on the first issue since the 1990s. While co-editing a special transgender studies issue of ''

Women's Studies Quarterly ''Women's Studies Quarterly'', often referred to as ''WSQ'', is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal of women's studies that was established in 1972 and published by The Feminist Press. The Feminist Press was founded by Florence Howe in 1970 ...

'' in 2008, Stryker and Currah realized the need for a publication dedicated to the topic, when they received over 200 submissions for the special issue but were only able to publish 12. In May 2013, they started a month-long

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campaign to help fund the journal. They received more than US$10,000 in donations in the first five days; by the end of the campaign, the journal had nearly $25,000 in crowdfunded capital. Because the first call for submissions drew a considerable amount of interest, the first issue was expanded into a book-length double issue with 86 essays. The title of the first issue, "Postposttranssexual", comes from Sandy Stone's 1987 article " The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto", which has been called the start of transgender studies. Each essay in this issue focuses on key concepts within transgender studies."Transgender Studies Quarterly." Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources, vol. 35, no. 3-4, 2014, p. 25+. Academic OneFile. Each issue of ''TSQ'' addresses specific themes, with the exception of the un-themed, open call issue released February 1, 2018. Past issue themes have included surgery, pedagogy, archives, trans/feminisms, and blackness.

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Official page (including CFPs) at the University of Arizona's LGBTQ+ Institute
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Publication history

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